Friendship, Love, and ...
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A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be. - Ann D. Parrish
A friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be somewhere else.
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute.
He may not seem such a good friend after telling. - Arthur Brisbane
A heart that loves is always young.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths;
feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit;
recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. - William Arthur Ward
A true friend walks in when the world walks out.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
Advice is like snow: the softer it falls the longer it is dwelled upon and
the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured. - Mark Twain
Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
is aiming about 10 inches too high. - Adrienne E. Gusoff
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
Choose your love wisely. Love your choice always.
Correction does much but encouragement does more. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things
from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others
for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance.
If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest,
how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? - Thomas a Kempis
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons
about creating the kind of love we really want. - Martha Beck
Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirits.
- Hannah More
Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
- Scandinavian Proverb
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman,
and God help him still more if he finds her. - Benjamin Tillet
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness.
Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. - George Sand
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns
He who receives a benefit should never forget it;
he who bestows should never remember it. - Pierre Charron
Honeymoon: a short period of doting between dating and debating. - Ray Bandy
Humor is the shortest distance between two people - Henny Youngman
If a man would keep a secret, then he must keep it a secret that he has a secret to keep.
- Francis Bacon
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
In true love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged.
- Hans Nouwens
Infatuation is the state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor
but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. - Russell Lynes
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. - John Mitchell Mason
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping,
always make you less than you are. - Malcolm Forbes
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. - Mother Teresa
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins
Love has reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Love is a game that two can play and both win. - Eva Gabor
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
Love is blind but marriage is a real eye opener.
Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you but trusting them not to.
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.
But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - Julins Gordon
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. - William Shakespeare
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
- Sean Connery
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- James A. Baldwin
Love truth, and pardon error. - Voltaire
Love: the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Mark Twain
Never give advice unless asked. - German Proverb
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - B. Dahyalal
One forgives to the degree that one loves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.
People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. - Leo J. Burke
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state.
Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself,
don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. - M. Scott Peck
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. - Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person;
it is a matter of being the right person.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to cheer yourself is by cheering someone else up. - Mark Twain
The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones
and can savor the reruns, then your marriage is a gift from God. - Bill Cosby
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. - Margo Kaufman
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby. - Natalie Wood
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The three stages of sex: tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
They may forget what you said, they may forget what you did,
but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Carl W. Buecher
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
- James Matthew Barrie
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. - John Sheffield
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope
that our love will produce love in the loved person. - Erich Fromm
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it,
you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. - Dinah Shore
True friendship is like sound health: the value of it is seldom known until lost.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends,
for life without friends is like life on a desert island ...
to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. - Baltasar Gracian
True love is friendship caught on fire.
We like because, we love although.
We may give without loving but we cannot love without giving.
We never realize the power of a single human being until one comes along and conquers our heart.
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. - Thomas Jefferson
When we were born we cried and the people around us smiled.
Live life so that when you die you are smiling and the people around you are crying.
- Nelson Mandela
When you build bridges you can keep crossing them. - Rick Pitino
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. - Albanian Proverb
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones. - Benjamin Franklin
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away. - Sir Arthur Helps
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. - English Proverb
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Andrew Watkins
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. - Harry Firestone
You have two hands. One to help yourself - the second to help others. - G. Coghlan
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
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